Stephen Kliment, Architect and Journalist, Dies at 78

Architect, editor, and journalist Stephen Kliment died on Sept. 10. He was 78 years old. Best known as the editor in chief of Architectural Record from 1990 through 1996, Kliment enjoyed a widely varied career. A Czech native raised in Great Britain, he came to the United States to study architecture at MIT and Princeton. Following graduate school, he worked briefly for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill before a stint as editor of Architecture and Engineering News. He then practiced for a dozen years as a partner with Caudill Rowlett Scott. Prior to his editorship at Record, Kliment was the acquisitions editor of architecture books at John Wiley & Sons, a role he reprised during the last decade of his life, when he established the publisher’s Building Type Basics series.